I was mooching around you tube earlier & found myself playing this song yet again.
Surely I am not the only person who can’t quite believe that a 40 year old former number 1 single still sounds futuristic?
IMHO, this is & will always be an absolute classic.
Donna Summer – I feel love
I will never tire of it. Watched this week’s repeat of TOTP 1983 earlier, and it played out to this (I’m guessing an edit of the Patrick Crowley remix?) and I found myself pondering whether Giorgio Moroder realised at the time that they’d created what would remain the height of high-energy disco (and an amazing piece of music regardless of genre) for generations to come.
Arguably (actually, probably not arguably) more dated, but still fun, is the Bronski Beat / Marc Almond version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NDpUl5LEME
RIP Larry Steinbachek.
Fuck me, I’ve just depressed myself by reading the comments on this: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/marc-almond-leads-tributes-ex-090617257.html
Jesus – who are these people?! I thought those attitudes had died long ago, but saw similar when George Michael died. Very sad. Small Town Boy as relevant as ever in some parts of the globe.
Terrific song.
And ironically Donna Summer herself made homophobic comments.
Yes. There was a time when lots of stars “found God” and went a bit like that Cheech & Chong sketch. You know the one:
“I used to be messed up on drugs. Now I’m messed up on The Lord.”
Not very long after, Donna saw some sense and rowed back on all of that stuff.
It’s still a stonker- not just because of the primitive sequenced bassline but the dynamics of the track particularly around 3.20 in where it drops back to just the bass synth – genius.
A monster track which as you say still sounds futuristic.
Just stumbled across this acoustic, oriental re-working by the late great Hector Zazou and pals. Not a patch on the orginal of course but rather fun.
I often think that this is the best pop song ever made.
It took everybody else at least ten years to catch up with this. Stunning. Even the garage stuff of the late 80s now sounds pretty weedy in comparison with this.
Interesting that the album it comes from has faded into obscurity. I can’t even remember what it’s called.
PS. Eno charged into Hansa after hearing it for the first time and told Dave’n’Tone that he’d heard the future.
The album was I Remember Yesterday. I used to have a 50p chazza copy.
Title track is gorgeous. Wasn’t that the “past” element of the album’s past-present-future theme?
My main music memory of (very late) 1977 is my sister playing The Greatest Hits of DS, which included both IFL and IRY. I found the cover images rather, er, interesting.
https://www.discogs.com/Donna-Summer-The-Greatest-Hits-Of-Donna-Summer/release/365643
Probably. A few of her LPs had an overarching theme. During one space-making clear out I thinned the Summer collection considerably. Of course I kept the two volume On The Radio compilation for its brilliantly literal album cover (and for the loooooong version of No More Tears): https://www.discogs.com/Donna-Summer-On-The-Radio-Greatest-Hits-Vol-1-2/master/27115
To your last sentence: course you did. Hurr.
“Wasted” off that GTO Greatest Hits LP is a brilliant little pop song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wKnykDket0
You’re right, it’s sensational. My favourite is the full length album version of “Love to love you baby”. A rare example of the little developed genre of Prog disco!
I cannot hear that without thinking of this
Every time I’ve seen AP I’ve though “Terrible hair… terrible voice… terrible dress… still totally would though”
For this insight into my tawdry little world, you’re welcome.
You’re not alone.
Prog disco – That is exactly what the 18 minute version of LTLYB is – great description.
The other prog disco record is the side-long title track of Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
It’s even got Steve Howe on it.
Thinking about it, the Dan Hartman album “Instant Replay” has a whole side dedicated to the title track – more prog disco. Maybe there’s more to this genre than we thought. Deserves its own thread I think.
There were some very iffy selections here and there in “Electronic Sound”‘s 100 greatest Electronic tracks of all time, but at least they got one thing right.
Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” was their No.1, followed by Kraftwerk’s “The Model”, Gary Numan’s “Cars” and The Human League’s “Being Boiled”.
As long as it’s the original mix! (A general principle for me, I can’t do with all the remixes that do nothing but add unnecessary bleeps and farts – Blue Monday being the top case in point).
Unnecessary farts? Better out than in, I say.
There was a really nice little electro synthy song that found its way to TOTP in 1977 and the video is still a little unsettling because the band looked like the ghost nun in Armchair Theatre. But then again it’s really funny too. The drummer in particular.
That drummer’s making a meal of it, isn’t he?
It’s the Pebble Mill version of The Residents.
Had the very same conversation with my wolf only recently…still feels futuristic, exactly.
40 years….sheesh.
Recorded in 1976 from her 5th (fifth!!) album according to Wikipedia .
You’ve got a wolf? And it talks? That’s pretty fucking futuristic too, tbf
Ah yes, my WIFE. Sure she’d be delighted to be known as my wolf.
Wait a minute….fierce, sharp teeth and hairy…….